Sometimes when the resin fossilizes and turns into the organic mineral that we call amber, one of these insects can be trapped inside.

In a stunning revelation, scientists have unearthed shark fossils dating back 325 million years in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. These remarkable finds not only represent two distinct shark species but also ...

Farid Saleh, a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellow at UNIL, and his team discovered that the internal chemistry of a carcass plays a pivotal role in whether it fossilizes.

Its most striking feature was its two curved claws about 30 centimeters long on each hand, equipped with preserved keratin sheaths—an exception in paleontology since keratin rarely fossilizes.

This ancient bit of ingenuity keeps carbon trapped for thousands of years Turning plant waste into biochar captures loads of carbon. New research suggests it stays trapped for a long time ...

For all its plant and animal life aboveground, the Amazon rainforest’s soils are surprisingly poor in nutrients necessary for growing food. Thousands of years ago, the region’s Indigenous ...

NEWS FROM THE PAST—edited & compiled by Yvonne ffrench—Viking ($2.75). News lives vividly for a day, fades quickly into staleness, fossilizes eventually into history. But most of it is ...

Titled “City Kids,” the show “fossilizes urban teen existence as an important part of society and culture,” Stephen said. “I wanted to create a way for this group of teens and any kids that grew up in ...

Photographer Stephen K. Schuster chronicled the lives of a group of Tribeca teenagers between 2006 and 2010 and the images — which while not *that* old are still so evocative — are on display at a ...

One of the most beautiful sights in the summer twilight is the gentle glow of fireflies lighting up the crepuscular gloom. These twinkling insects are the most abundant bioluminescent beetles, with ...